shrug. i'm not sure tbh. "love" is a messy word & i think it opens up more than it reduces. i've used the word myself before when writing about their dynamic but not really in a pointed sense & ive never attempted to qualify it on either end, asa's or denji's because that perception isnt whats important to me, rather the attempt at perception, attempt at Love, if that makes sense? not a positive term, but a Felt term.... it's clumsy, almost miserable. in many ways it's an expression of asa's conflict.